Manuel Gonzalez completes the 2025 Intact GP Moto2 line-up alongside Senna Agius
A few weeks after the German Intact GP team announced the contract extension of this year's rookie Senna Agius via social media, the German Moto2 racing team from Memmingen in Bavaria is pleased to present its complete rider pairing in Moto2 for the 2025 season with Manuel Gonzalez.
With Manuel Gonzalez, the team led by Jürgen Lingg, Stefan Keckeisen and Wolfgang Kuhn has gained a talented young rider who, at the age of 22, has already written an impressive success story that he would like to continue with the German racing team starting from 2025.
The Spaniard made a name for himself at a young age, winning the European Talent Cup at only 15 years. When he achieved three consecutive podium finishes towards the end of his first World SSP300 season in 2018, the Kawasaki ParkinGO team recruited him for the following season, where he made history by becoming the youngest world champion in motorcycle road racing with three wins and a total of six podium finishes. In 2020, he was finally promoted to the WorldSSP, where the rookie finished every single race in the top ten. He kept adding up to this already impressive performance in 2021 with his first two victories and a third place in the overall standings.
In 2022, he joined the newly formed Yamaha Academy Team in the Moto2 World Championship and proved his abilities with three top 5 finishes. Gonzalez achieved his first top results in Moto2 with a fantastic second place in Qatar and another in Mugello in 2023. In the current season, the Madrilenian is in ninth place in the total standings, having taken pole position in Portimao and already reached the podium three times, finishing third in Portimao and Jerez and second in Mugello!
Meanwhile, his future team-mate Senna Agius is contesting his first successful season in the Moto2 World Championship and is now leading the rookie standings by 13 points, having scored points in seven of eleven races in his debut year to date, with his best result being fifth in Barcelona. The recently announced contract extension for the 19-year-old confirms the full confidence that the German racing team has placed in last year's European Moto2 champion since his time with the in-house junior team. In 2025, he will be fighting for further success together with Manuel Gonzalez.
Even though the season is far from over, the Intact GP team would like to thank Darryn Binder for a great time together and wish him all the best for the future. But now we have to focus fully on the next nine races, which are still to come and in which we want to continue the remarkable upward trend of the South African together.
